Fear Quotes
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I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.
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Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing.
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I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.
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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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Putting fear into people is the principal goal of terrorists, and they have been successful.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'
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I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.
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If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.
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There were not that many people who were willing to come out and stand up for Muslims or stand up against the abuses of the Bush administration. That was post-9/11, so I think there was a lot of fear at the time about exactly what that meant - were they unpatriotic if they stood up?
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Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
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No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.
Charles B. Rangel -
I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.
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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
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I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because they would make me a martyr. Our biggest fear was our children, because there was a tremendous amount of threat and intimidation, and my wife was terrified that the children might be grabbed or assaulted in some way. That was the real fear.
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Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to 'penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear,' as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated.
